questionText: To ask the Member for South West Bedfordshire, representing the Church Commissioners, whether the Church plans to publicly acknowledge historic links with the chattel slave trade.
answerText: The Archbishop of Canterbury has been unequivocal on the theology of this issue, noting on his visit to Cape Coast Castle in Ghana in February 2023:“It was a reminder that the abomination of African chattel enslavement was blasphemy: those who imprisoned ...
heading: Church of England: Slavery